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Eirini Zormpa
Data management and open science specialist with experience in research, teaching and project management. Driven and reliable with excellent communication skills.
Experience
Trainer on Research Data Management and Open Science
Delft University of Technology Library (remote)
Delft, NL
2021–now
- Delivered training to PhD candidates, data stewards, and Principal Investigators from different disciplines on (FAIR) research data management, reproducible analysis (using R and git), and open science.
- Coordinated the delivery of training courses for a national collaboration on research data management.
- Participated in collaborative projects, e.g., with data stewards from different universities on improving practices around FAIR and reproducible code.
- Established new collaborations, e.g. the Coding Confessions project about normalising failure in research software.
- Chaired meetings, ensuring there was a clear agenda, fair participation, and comprehensive notes.
- Worked on data wrangling and visualisation to evaluate participation in training offered by the library.
- Became a certified Carpentries instructor.
PhD Candidate
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Nijmegen, NL
2016–2020
- Planned and managed own PhD project and co-supervised intern project.
- Designed and ran multi-phase experiments with human participants.
- Analysed complex datasets using advanced statistical methods.
- Used open research best practices (e.g. open data/code, FAIR principles).
- Advocated for the adoption of open science practices on Nijmegen campus.
- Peer reviewed publications for journals, e.g. Memory & Cognition and Journal of Open Source Software.
Education
University of Reading
MSc in Language Sciences (Awarded distinction)
Reading, UK
2014–2015
- Conducted independent and collaborative research on bilingual adults.
- Received the “Achieving Excellance” Bursary Award.
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
BA in English Language and Literature (1st Class grade)
Thessaloniki, GR
2009–2013
- Conducted research project on the narratives of bilingual children.
- Undertook Erasmus exchange at Duisburg-Essen University.
Community Organising Experience
Open Science Community Nijmegen
Co-founded local community advocating for open science. Event organiser, e.g. of a ReproducibiliTea journal club, and content creator for website and newsletter.
N/A
2018–2020
Peer-reviewed Publications
- Slow naming of pictures facilitates memory for their names. 2019. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. doi: 10.3758/s13423-019-01620-x
- The production effect and the generation effect improve memory in picture naming. 2019. Memory. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2018.1510966
Selected Presentations
- False memory and the generation effect. 2021. Short talk presented at the 27th AMLaP conference (online).
- Open science and early career researchers. 2020. Invited talk at the meeting of the Max Planck Society Social Science Libraries (online).
- Naming pictures slowly facilitates memory for their names. Poster presented at the 21st ESCoP meeting.
- The power of open science communities. Unconference session co-chaired at the 4th SIPS Meeting.
Blog Posts
- Why mycode.R_final.v2_usethisone is not helping your workflow. Software Sustainability Institute, Speed blog written during the Collaborations Workshop 2020.
- Coding Confessions: Celebrating the SSI #CollabW21 Hack Day Runners Up. 4TU.ResearchData Community blog.
R-Ladies Nijmegen chapter
Co-founded local R-Ladies chapter with 300+ members, promoting gender diversity in the R community. See below for workshop examples.
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2018–2020
Selected Teaching and Training Experience
Research data management 101
Delft University of Technology Graduate School
Delft (online)
2021-2022
Planning your data management
Bioinformatics for PIs, EMBL-EBI (slides)
Cambridge, UK (online)
Jun 2021
Open data & reproducibility: R Markdown, Dashboards, Binder
UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference (workshop)
Birmingham, UK (online)
Jul 2020
Reproducible analyses in R
IMPRS Conference 2020 (workshop materials)
Nijmegen, NL (online)
Jun 2020
Towards reproducible science: Power analysis
R-Ladies Nijmegen (workshop materials)
Nijmegen, NL
Jun 2019
Selected Event Organising Experience
Pint of Science NL
Three-day science communication event bringing science into pubs.
N/A
2019–2020
Open Access Ambassador Conference
Two-day international conference on Open Access, connecting stakeholders from academia, the public sector, and industry.
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Dec 2019
IMPRS Introduction Days
Two-day event welcoming new graduate students. I facilitated a discussion on PhD life covering topics like work-life balance and mental health.
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Sep 2019